Farm Subsidy information
Texas
Texas Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Texas, 2010
Texas Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Texas ranking: 1 of 50 States
- 86 percent of farms in Texas did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Texas, 2010:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2010 |
Subsidy Total 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cotton Subsidies | 44,274 | $401,363,880 |
| 2 | Disaster Payments | 25,228 | $331,119,956 |
| 3 | Wheat Subsidies | 39,424 | $150,126,649 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 16,569 | $118,994,311 |
| 5 | Corn Subsidies | 21,194 | $87,220,938 |
| 6 | Sorghum Subsidies | 42,584 | $82,730,839 |
| 7 | Livestock Subsidies | 8,044 | $68,012,361 |
| 8 | Rice Subsidies | 2,677 | $58,089,675 |
| 9 | Peanut Subsidies | 4,930 | $31,165,001 |
| 10 | Env. Quality Incentive Program | 870 | $15,740,676 |
‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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